Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you have a PC, why would you be looking at laptops? .

My guess is portability. You can take laptops with you by grabbing a bag.... it's acceptable to go to somebody else's house, or a pub, or a meeting, or anywhere and get out a laptop and log on..... imagine the looks you'd get if you started unpacking and assembling a PC

I have both because I had a PC, only a PC, until I then needed to be online away from my home - so I got a laptop for that Laptop is also used as my backup/emergency plan if the PC stops working to be able to google for solutions or repairers.

vivatifosi

Way to go Cheshunt (Hertfordshire) girl Laura Trott! She's just won the world championship in the Omnium (cycling). It was Laura who I mentioned taking everyone from the back of the field in the elimination race in London. She at that point took a few scalps that she'd never beaten. In a few weeks she's gone on to be world champion. Give it a month or so and she may well be Olympic Champion as well as having her face on stamps! Marvellous! Not bad for 19 years old.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

My guess is portability. You can take laptops with you by grabbing a bag.... it's acceptable to go to somebody else's house, or a pub, or a meeting, or anywhere and get out a laptop and log on..... imagine the looks you'd get if you started unpacking and assembling a PC

I have both because I had a PC, only a PC, until I then needed to be online away from my home - so I got a laptop for that Laptop is also used as my backup/emergency plan if the PC stops working to be able to google for solutions or repairers.

I have a 9" netbook, which is okay for work on the move, cost £100 new (Dell misprice), and only weighs 1kg. The big desktop replacement laptops weigh around 3kgs with the charger, which is a fair amount of weight to lug around. I find the keyboards too small for daily use, and I need to add a mouse.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you go by boat though, you've got your car

Aargh- driving in a foreign city should be regarded as a spectator sport.
Before you even think of finding parking spaces.

The accident rate abroad is often higher and there are often mixed modes of travel leading to more accident. Saw loads of accidents in Amsterdam with trams, bikes and cars. Public transport in Paris is great, parking and driving not so much.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

Way to go Cheshunt (Hertfordshire) girl Laura Trott! She's just won the world championship in the Omnium (cycling). It was Laura who I mentioned taking everyone from the back of the field in the elimination race in London. She at that point took a few scalps that she'd never beaten. In a few weeks she's gone on to be world champion. Give it a month or so and she may well be Olympic Champion as well as having her face on stamps! Marvellous! Not bad for 19 years old.

If you added up all the things all the nice people combined had done by age 19, would we come close?

(Maybe LIR?)

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

Aargh- driving in a foreign city should be regarded as a spectator sport.
Before you even think of finding parking spaces.

The accident rate abroad is often higher and there are often mixed modes of travel leading to more ancient. Saw loads of accidents in Amsterdam with trams, bikes and cars. Public transport in Paris is great, parking and driving not so much.

When I was in my 20s, a small group of us drove over to Milan. Once we arrived, we were desperately looking for somewhere to park the car in the city centre, until I noticed an open underground car park. It was a bit cheeky, but we drove in anyway. Unfortunately, we had to leave again, as our car was rather conspicuous. It was the only one in the garage without Polizia written on the side and blue lights on the top!

michaels

I drove round france 2 weeks after my 18th birthday in a real mini and drove round half of europe in a lancia y10 when I was 22, including driving in Milan and Rome.

My hot deal has reached 979 degrees - if I get to 1000 I get another badge

However given the number of people who have ordered sofas now and none have gone out of stock I suspect that actually there is a real time stock issue and there are going to be a lot of cancellations and disappointment...

CKhalvashi

Hey all, hope everyone is well!

Debating whether to drive 2 hours ‘dawn sarf’ tomorrow to see family, or whether to leave it (Easter isn’t huge in the Orthodox calendar), and I think that most of that is going to remain set of what the weather wants to do. I’ve cleaned my car yesterday, and want to keep it like that. It’s never ever ever clean outside, even though (apart from the drivers footwell) it’s normally clean inside!

I’m currently sat in a back street cab office racking through accounts, and it would appear that we have happy drivers and happy customers (driver income has risen by 50% to average £800-ish takings in the last week on 50/50 - fuel, and noone’s moaned), so all seems to be going well. Still a 70-car firm, even though I didn’t want to be. Last job of the day will be to run £21468.35 cash and £195000 of cheques (station licenses for the year for opposition company at £3k each) to Natwest in a minute! We’re still trading under the old name, and a massive ‘CK is back in charge as the company couldn’t handle its own affairs’ in the paper seems to have gone down a treat! I love them being open until 4

See you in about half an hour.

CK

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Got 700 Gb of hard drives on a 11-year old G4 dual mac running 2Gb RAM and system 10.5. Will have to upgrade eventually to one of those intel-based macs from the dark side.

New hardware doesn't scare me but hard-to-learn software does put me off. Used to have a version of Photoshop 1.0 that fitted on a 720k floppy and laughably-simple software that did everything you could want (Nisus writer was a Word processsor with ten clipboard memories and "fuzzy-find" search facilities. Fitted in a small floppy disk, back in the early 90s. Doubt there's anything better in the microsoft-stuffed modern bloatware world).

I've fitted hard drives, memory and power units in computers including macs but find it boring and would prefer that macs were cheap enough so I could buy one in a box and never take a screwdriver to it but my budget doesn't allow it.:mad:

Biggest objection to Windows machines is the endless dialogue boxes that open up, and the "upgrading" which really means "trying to stay as good as it's just been, but not improving". I don't want to converse with the machine, I want one that can guess what I want and get on with it.

I’ve got a MacBook Pro that I’ve had about 4 years now. It’s the nightmare of getting equipment transferred off of this onto a new one that scares me :eek:

£250/year so far can’t be moaned at too much, and the £7k of equipment is mainly off the 100 user licenses, so didn’t cost any extra anyway

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Hey all, hope everyone is well!

Debating whether to drive 2 hours ‘dawn sarf’ tomorrow to see family, or whether to leave it (Easter isn’t huge in the Orthodox calendar), and I think that most of that is going to remain set of what the weather wants to do. I’ve cleaned my car yesterday, and want to keep it like that. It’s never ever ever clean outside, even though (apart from the drivers footwell) it’s normally clean inside!

I’m currently sat in a back street cab office racking through accounts, and it would appear that we have happy drivers and happy customers (driver income has risen by 50% to average £800-ish takings in the last week on 50/50 - fuel, and noone’s moaned), so all seems to be going well. Still a 70-car firm, even though I didn’t want to be. Last job of the day will be to run £21468.35 cash and £195000 of cheques (station licenses for the year for opposition company at £3k each) to Natwest in a minute! We’re still trading under the old name, and a massive ‘CK is back in charge as the company couldn’t handle its own affairs’ in the paper seems to have gone down a treat! I love them being open until 4

See you in about half an hour.

CK

For years I had two jobs to try to cover the cost of living ... and sometimes unusual jobs when I was between jobs.

I had one short stint as a taxi controller years ago - had to know the area inside out of course, to send the nearest taxi.... it was probably about 1985, so old fashioned phone hand set, map on the wall and pins with stickers. And the "log journeys logbook" kept to make sure there was an even spread of long journeys offered to drivers was a ring binder and lined paper.

In 1997 I moved to my current area and, in looking for "any job", there was a taxi controller job advertised in the Jobcentre. This was pre-minimum wage days and I remember it said it was the night shift and they paid £2/hour.